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...leading household- and personal-products company, announced it will close 30 plants and eliminate 13,000 jobs in an effort to meet the prices of discount and private-label competitors. In times like these, they used to say that a sneeze by the American economy gave Detroit a bout...
...produce a series of jazz records and Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album; Fagen released 1982's The Nightfly, a consummately crafted solo effort that echoed with the bebop percolations of his East Coast adolescence. Then came an 11-year hiatus, which Fagen attributes to a serious bout of writer's block. "I was kind of depressed at the time," he explains. "And it took me a while to figure out what I wanted...
...Kiss is a proven commodity. The same production, with the same cast, opened in London six months ago to deserved acclaim. Some reviewers were uncomfortable with the subject matter, which includes torture, threats of anal rape, and a disquieting scene in which one man washes the other after a bout of poison- induced diarrhea. Admits Prince: "We couldn't have gotten this project financed a decade...
...album closes with Epilogue (Nothing 'bout Me), a swinging, carefree ditty in which the singer takes a parting shot at his would-be analysts. Like a puppeteer peeking out from behind the curtain, Sting dares the listener to "Pick my brain, pick my pockets/ Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets/ Run every kind of test from A to Z/ And you'll still know nothing 'bout me." It's a fittingly elusive coda from pop's most mercurial bard...
...Pennsylvania (14-0 Ivy, 22-4 overall)--Best of the Best III. Then again, Best of the Best II is terrible. Come to think of it, the original Best of the Best is a bout as good as the six-week old Zesty Broccoli Tofu Stir-Fry HDS dishes up every now and then...